Improvement in apparatus for shaping pantaloons



C.H.F.KRUSL APPARATUS FOR SHAPING PAN'IALOONS.

Patented July 25.1876.

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CHARLES H. F. KRUSE, OF FISHKILL LANDING, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR SHAPING PANTALOON S.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 180,244, dated July 25, 1876; application filed April 27, 1876. i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. F. Know, of Fishkill Landing, in the State of New York, have invented an Apparatus for Shaping Pantaloon Spring-Bottoms; and the following is a full and complete description of the same, to enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings and the letters of description marked thereon.

Figure 1 is a'sectional elevation; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section on line a x of Fig. l; and Fig. 3, a crosssection on line 3 y, Fig. 1.

The invention is an improvementin devices for stretching the bottoms ,of pantaloon-legs, and imparting to them a certain'desired shape. The device is composed of three parts-to wit, a sliding wedge and two formers or formingpieces, attached to the wedge in such manner that by adjusting the latter the width of the board is increased or lessened accordingly.

The thin wedge A has ahandle, a, attached to its larger end, and is provided with a dovetailed groove on each edge, to receive the corresponding ribs formed on the inner edge of each of the formers or forming-pieces B. The latter are connected by the bar 0, which extends transversely through the lengthwise slot in the wedge A. The bar 0 is confined or secured in place by means of a triangular block, b, inserted in a like-shaped cavity in the side ofone ot' the formers B. The three parts A B B are preferably incased by an elastic fabric, (1.

The manner of use of the board is readily apparent. Thewedge A being drawn out as far as the bar (3 will permit, the board is inserted in lower end of one of the pantaloons to'be stretched. The wedge is then pushed in till the formers B B are spread apart sufficiently to stretch the fabric tightly over the 

